Can we afford them?

Won’t allowing anyone in an organisation the opportunity to ask questions get in the way of what ought to be happening?  

Won’t it be chaos?

Question and inquiry are going to happen more and more: natural products of growing consciousness and awareness.  It’s difficult to imagine an ongoing industrial approach to the workplace in which people aren’t encouraged to bring more imagination and creativity.  The organisation which ignores or fails to engage these will disable itself.

‘Awakened doing is the alignment of our outer purpose – what you do – with your inner purpose – awakening and staying awake.’*

Eckhart Tolle suggests three modalities through which greater awareness and consciousness can be expressed.  As I read these, I thought about how they offer the ways and means for cultures of inquiry to be encouraged.

The modalities are: acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm.  Who wouldn’t more of these in the workplace?  At any one time at least one of these modalities needs to be expressed.

Many businesses, organisations, and institutions seek only acceptance, but this is the very basic a worker brings.  What they will seek more and more is to contribute their enthusiasm and energy too, such as enthusiasm and energy in shared ownership of a project or in ideas, and enjoyment of being able to fully engage and be present.

It’s a no brainer, or, rather, it’s a total brainer.

(*From Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth.)